Fidel Castro Banned The Beatles In Cuba, 50 Years Later The Rolling Stones Play For Free In Havana

Fidel Castro Banned The Beatles In Cuba, 50 Years Later The Rolling Stones Play For Free In Havana

“When people first started hearing the Beatles in Cuba, they started wearing different kind of clothes, jeans, leather jackets, longer hair. They talked about ‘revolution’, they identified with Che Guevara. When the police would arrest them for wearing long hair, they would say, ‘But when Che and Fidel came out of the mountains [to take control of Havana in 1959], they were wearing their hair long.”